American Experience - America and the Holocaust Streaming
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This is really a very well done documentary about an situation rarely covered and hardly known to the general pubic.
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While America and her Allies deserve gargantuan credit for ending the hellish reign of the Nazis and thus playing the crucial role in the suvival of the remnant of the Jews in Europe (roughly some 250,000 people out of 6 plus million), they failed to act and even at times prevented actions that could have saved countless Jewish lives!
This documentary does an qualified job covering the basics: from the treachery of the US Dwelling Department, led by Breckenridge Slight, who told consulates to obstruct the distribution of visas (some 50,000 were left unused when hundreds of thousands needed them to set aside their lives) to the Bergson group who ran inviting ads in major papers and performed a dramatic pageant to raise pubilc awareness.
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In general, it’s an eye-opener if you haven’t heard this stuff and a well establish together review and overview if you have.
There is stuff missing, however, and in my concept some things were whitewashed. For instance, American Jewish leader Stephen Wise comes across radiant gracious in this documentary (and especially on the PBS website of the movie) . In reality, this man did as great to hinder rescue as back it.
In August 1942, for instance, when reports of Nazi genocide reached Wise, he promised, under pressure from the Spot Department, not to publicize the news. “How could he pledge secrecy when millions of lives were enthusiastic? ” asked Elie Wiesel twenty-five years later. “How was he not driven exasperated by the secret? ” Seemingly, for Wise, loyalty to President Roosevelt and his administration, however misplaced came before exerting pressure to put lives. While the facts are stated in the documentary — e.g. that he got the news in August but didn’t publicize it till November — it is not explicitly spelled out that Wise did anything execrable in withholding the information. The facts are not told with the well-known edge that paints Wise as a Roosevelt lackey whose loyalty cost countless lives.
Although the documentary mentions the promising opportunity in 1943 to keep 70,000 Rumanian Jews it doesn’t mention how Wise was one of those who attempted to block the efforts, or that in 1944, when public pressure built up for the creation of a special War Refugee Board, Wise testified before Congress against this proposal, or when 400 Rabbis marched on Washington it was Stephen Wise and his associates who persuaded Roosevelt against receiving the Rabbis.
My point is not to excoriate Wise (although he deserves it) . And there were certainly other Jewish “leaders” who failed miserably as well. My point is that the documentary plays soft in spots when the truth demanded some hard hits.
In the slay, though, it really is an splendid, vast documentary that covers the basics of a neglected area; a documentary that will build you better informed even as it makes your blood boil.
Like so many others, I grew up in the era in which our history classes clearly taught that FDR and America were undisputed world heroes in handling the WWII/Holocaust era. The truth is more complicated than that, as this DVD shows. While politicians controlling America’s immigration machinery fiddled, actual human beings burned, and the disinformation campaign on top of this is surreal in its aggravation of the tragedy. Even having been an avid student of this era my entire adult lifetime, and having read or viewed a gigantic array of available materials, I found this DVD to add significantly to what needs to be understood and remembered. It is a prized addition to my collection.
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